Just needed to start a thread to comment on the most brutal 15 minutes of the show. In hour 3, after the band interview, Art starts talking to Mike about A-Rod, where he makes a nonsensical analogy to Roman Gladiator times. Bocchetti starts talking about sweat socks (whatever the fuck that is), Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Kinison and something known as "an under 5".

I really can't describe how his mind works. It's like he has neural pathways that have short circuited and latch on to the first thought in his brain. My mouth hung open for at least 10 minutes at the sheer stupidity of Mike and his inability to tell a joke without saying "uh" "you know" or "becusss" 20 times in one very long run-on sentence.

This show was actually good. Save for the band, with their weird porn-sounding bass guitar.

Because the first 2 guests were comics, the show was pretty light on Ritchie contributions after the intro. And I cannot stress enough the weird 3rd hour where Art basically hangs Mike out to dry, making him ramble on for 15 minutes straight.

Mike: There would be after-effects of steroids.
Artie: Excuse me, Mike?
Mike: His face would probably be like, uh, I seen people who did roids in the gym and their face were like pockholed.
Jon: The gym? You mean the gym that you joined?
Mike: No the late eighties, roid guys were, you could tell just by weightlifters...their faces were blown, uh, you could see immediately.
Artie: That's got nothing to do with roids.
Jon: Their faces looked puffy?
Mike: Yeah and blown up, or like pockmarks, you could see.
Artie: They get pockmarks from steroids? They shoot in their face?
Mike: No, but I seen somebody have a roid rage. It's brutal.
Jon: Did you ever check their balls?
Mike: No no no, I'm not that kind of person.
Artie: No but I'm saying, why would they get pockmarks?
Jon: That's a surefire way to tell
Artie: Why would they get pockmarks?!
Mike: No their faces were like...blown...I don't know...it was the late 80's...I don't know.
Artie: Because it was the late 80's?
Jon: Maybe they just had poor hygiene and they got carbuncles and boils.
Mike: No these guy were roidheads Jon, I seen them explode on people too it was brutal.
Artie: What would they do?
Mike: One guy was gigantic. I was watching him work out and he goes "Don't look at me work out you pinhead"!
Artie: Well maybe he was creeped out at you.
Jon: Yeah, were you staring at him?
Mike: Just watching him work to learn.
Jon: And sexing him up?
Mike: No no no.
Artie: Sounds like you were being gay.
Mike: No!
Jon: Yeah.
Mike: No, just wanted to learn from watching other people working out.
Artie: Yeah, but you gotta get permission.
Jon: Were you looking at his package?
Mike: No!
Artie: You gotta get permission to do that. You don't just stare.
Mike: No, I just watched how he was doing the curls.
Artie: But that's creepy Mike.
Mike: No, I just looked for a second and he freaked out on me.
Artie: You don't just stare at the guy.
Mike: He freaked out on me Artie. He went "Don't look at me" I'm like wow!
Artie: You were just staring at him?
Mike: No, just for a second.
Artie: Dude, I guarantee it was much longer than a second.
Mike: No, it was one second to watch the proper technique of how to work out.
Artie: How do you know it was the proper technique?
Mike: He was a big guy that was all cut up. He had to have it.
Artie: He was on roids!
Mike: Well, maybe, he would of still been a big guy without them. He was big and massive.
Artie: What year was this?
Mike: 89.
Artie: So you were already morbidly obese.
Mike: No, no, I was about 170-175.
Artie: So you could have gone either way then and you chose this path.
Mike: This path is kinda fun. I love eating my way to fatness.
Artie: Yeah, but Mike you have to understand your health, I mean...
Mike: I know, I'm okay, I'm walking every day.
Artie: Do you know?
Mike: Yes.